Gepard

The answer is simple. When i have spoken with former MiG-21 pilots some years ago, they told me, that the MiG-21PF was their favorite MiG-21 version. They called it MiG-21Sport or MiG-21GTI, because it was like a sportscar in comparision with the later MiG-21M or MF, which they descriped as agile as a truck. The fuel problem is relevant, but solved for the K with the refuel probe. Give me some more days for flighttests. At the moment the AI plane has sometimes problems with landing on carrier.

EDIT: seems to be, that i have overseen that a similar threat is already existing. But here the british BBC view. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21554331

View File MiG-21SMF MiG-21SMF *********** ---------------------------------------------------------- I. This mod is written for SF2 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. History: End of the 60th it became obviesly that the MiG-21S needed more thrust. The implementation of the R-13-300 engine and other improvements made the MiG-21SM. But even this plane was underpowered a little bit. So the MiG-OKB decided to try an uprated version of the R-13 engine which was originaly developed for the Su-15M. This engine was the R-13F2-300 with the same dry thrust like the old R-13-300, but an increased afterburner thrust of 70.2 kN. In 1970 one (other sources say 2) MiG-21SM were taken from the production line and were refitted to the SMF standard. Flighttest were held in 1970 and 1971 with satisfying results. But it was decided to cancel this project in favor to the more advanced MiG-21bis. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. CREDITS: The great MiG-21SM cockpit is made by Paladrian. All other files are modified from TK's stock MiG-21MF ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. INSTALLATION: -Unzip all files into your aircraft folder. The plane is prepared for the pilot file Red5201. This pilot is included in Troopers Red Pilots pack. You will find it here: http://combatace.com/files/file/8218-sovietrussian-pilots-pack-part-1-60s-80s/ ------------------------------------------------------------ V. This mod is FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL use is NOT ALLOWED. ---------------------------------------------------------- VI. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM. Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany July 2014 Submitter Gepard Submitted 07/06/2014 Category MiG-21

No. The MiG-15 never had the capability to use guided weapons.

Yep, Columbia should be banned for the next Worldcup.

Nice game. Nix Allez les bleus. It was Allez les blanc! As already said, the german team is like a good horse. It jumps only as high as neccessary. And this means Germany is in semifinal and France is flying home.

Good news for France, bad news for Germany: Nearly 1/3 of the german team has the flu. I hope they will be fine tomorrow.

A good horse jumps only as high as neccessary. More effort was not neccessary to beat Algeria. But i agree with you, the german team played a terrible ugly game. I dont know, wheter you know the old english football crack Gerry Linecker. He said: "Football is a game for 22 players and finaly the germans win."

It seems to be a hit in the right wing tank. The MiG-21 has only 150 liters there, if i remember correctly. If the fuel is vapored the fire will be out and the plane will have a fair chance to come home. During the India vs Pakistan war of 1973 an indian MiG-21 got a similar hit and came home with a hole in size of a football in the wing.

To have the planes is only one side of the medal. The other side are the pilots. Does the Iraq has pilots who can fly the Su-25 under war conditions? Does they have groundcrews to operate the plane?

WIP. Last flighttests. 2 weeks ;-)

Bei der Skyhawk setz einfach die Kanonenmunition auf 0. Dann ballert die Skyhawk auch nicht mehr. Sollte in etwa so aussehen: [LeftGun] SystemType=FIXED_GUN GunTypeName=20MM_Mk12 InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN MuzzlePosition=-0.55,4.08,-0.58 LightPosition= -0.55,4.08,-0.58 MaxAmmo=0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Die Zeile EjectShells=TRUE EjectPosition=-0.55,2.41,-0.71 EjectVelocity=0.0,0.0,-2.0 MinExtentPosition=-0.41, 1.96,-0.45 MaxExtentPosition=-0.66, 4.11,-0.68 [RightGun] SystemType=FIXED_GUN GunTypeName=20MM_Mk12 InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN MuzzlePosition=0.55,4.23,-0.58 LightPosition= 0.55,4.23,-0.58 MaxAmmo=0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Die Zeile EjectShells=TRUE EjectPosition=0.55,2.56,-0.71 EjectVelocity= 0.0,0.0,-2.0 MinExtentPosition= 0.41, 1.96,-0.45 MaxExtentPosition= 0.66, 4.11,-0.68

Quick and dirty solution If you have no desert airfields, then try to use the airfields of WOV. Open the file Battle of Britain_targets.ini with Notepad Editor. press CTRL+H look for DESERT_AIRFIELD and replace it with VIETNAMSEA_AIRFIELD save the file and try it again. Could work.

I agree with your prediction in the most cases. Only in the last row i have a different idea: Belgium : USA i would vote for Belgium.

Cool.

Free hunt missions, in NATO slang CAP was a very common mission type of the soviet fighter units in WW2. The soviet fighter pilots may not have had the same high scores as the germans, but they had higher scores than the british and american fighter pilots. And even in Korea the soviet top scorers had more kills than the american top scorers. The skin of a MiG-15 is thin aluminium. There is nothing for a bullit to bounce. In contrary, the 12.7mm bullits penetrated easily the skin of a MiG-15, but the damage inside the plane was minimal. So a MiG-15 could easily "eat" 40 or 50 rounds. The most number of survived hits was over 200. The only chance to kill a MiG-15 with one or two bullits was to hit the pilot. Here two pictures which show the different destruction power of the guns Here a F-86F hit by one 23mm shell. Pilot R.J. Dixon 1953 Here a MiG-15bis hit by a couple of shells. I have counted 19. It could be more.

Soviet B-24 seems to be more real than you think.

Big die of favorits. Spain, England, Italy. Who's next?

(source FAZ http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/eurofighter-kollidiert-mit-learjet-mindestens-ein-toter-bei-uebung-der-luftwaffe-13005527.html) During an air intercept training mission one of two Eurofighters collided with a private Learjet at an alttitute between 3 and 5 km. The Learjet played the role of a civil jet which had lost of communication and a pilot with no idea where he is. Target of the exercise was to intercept the Learjet, make visuell ID, make visuell contact and guid the civil jet to the next airfield. During the exercise one Eurofighter touched the Learjet. The Learjet crashed, both crew mebmbers died. The Eurofighter is reported to be heavily damaged, but the pilot is unharmed. Its also said, that the pilots in all planes were high skilled with a good training status.

The 10:1 myth was born by journalists who were unable to read a statistic carefully. If you look to the official 792 to 78 kill rate then try to find the dates of the timeframe of data. It starts in March or April 1952 when the best and most successfull soviet fighter units were replaced by second line air defence units. What means that a lot of MiG-15 scores were not counted by the USA statistic. The other fact is the strange kind of kill counting by the US Air Force. A kill was credited if the gun camera showed 6 hits with a 12.7mm machine gun. In the last month of the war the number of "needed hits" to confirm a kill was decreased to 2. A MiG-15 survied easily 6 hits. On the other side a loss was only an air to air loss if the US plane made a crash on battlefield. If a wounded Sabre was lost on way home, so this loss was counted as caused by technical failure. If it run out of fuel because the tanks were ruptured by MiG fire so it was counted not as loss caused by MiG-15, but as lost caused by run out of fuel. The us Forces were very creative to find other solutions for a loss. My favorit is "collision with unknown object".

Nice picture. But i'm afraid that it is photoshoped.

To be a little bit provocative: Would it be truely a problem if the Iraq would break into 3 parts? This state is artificial. It was built by the british on the green table after the Versailles Treaty in 1919 or 1920 or so. Why not have a Kurdish state, a sunni and a shia state?

The 30mm armament of the Me-262 was neccessary to kill heavy bombers. The 20mm guns of this timeframe were not efficient enough to do this job. It happend to often, that german fighters hit US heavies with a lot of 20mm rounds, but the attacked plane survived. IIRC there were 20 to 30 hits with 20mm guns neccessary to kill a B-17 or B-24 in average. With 30mm guns only 3 or 4 kills had done the job. Today the 30mm is the caliber which the most fighter aircraft building nations use. Only the USA are still using 20mm spray and pray guns. Britain, France, Russia, China. All use 30mm guns.